Possible to write a Unicode*like* object?

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In article <7h3vg00sz9x.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>,
 Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:

> >>> re.match('(a)|b', array.array('u', u'a string')).groups()
> (array('u', u'a'),)

Ah, cool. That's a great example. Thanks!

Just